More than a dozen people have died and nearly a hundred have been injured as a result of heavy snow across Japan, while thousands experienced power outages on Christmas.
Officials warned residents to exercise caution while removing snow from their homes. Many of the recent deaths occurred when people fell while getting snow off of their roofs when snow fell onto them from their roofs.
This included a woman in her 70s who was found under a pile of snow at her home in Nagai, about 180 miles north of Tokyo.Residents remove snow during heavy snow Monday, Dec. 19, 2022 in Nagaoka, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan. The snow was so heavy in the northern part of the country that it knocked down an electric power transmission tower, resulting in roughly 20,000 people not having power on
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